TITLE:
Comparative Study on Professional Identity of Undergraduate Nursing Students with Different Admission Levels before Clinical Practice
AUTHORS:
Liping Li, Rui Sun
KEYWORDS:
Undergraduate Nursing Students, Clinical Practice, Professional Identity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
10,
2021
ABSTRACT: Objective: To investigate the status of professional identity of undergraduate
nursing students at different admission levels before clinical practice, and
analyze the differences and reasons, so as to provide basis for guiding the
development of nursing students’ professional identity. Methods: A total
of 186 nursing students (including the first batch of admissions from senior
middle school, the second batch admissions from senior middle school of
secondary college, and the admissions from junior college graduates) were
surveyed by using occupational identity scale before clinical practice. The
scale contains four dimensions: career moratorium, career diffusion, career
achievement, and career foreclosure. The highest-scoring dimension is recorded
as the status type of professional identity for each nursing student. If a
student’s highest score is not unique, his type is considered ambiguous. Results: 1) 35.5% of them are in the status of career moratorium, 1.6% of
them are in the status of career diffusion, 52.2% of them
reach to the status of career achievement, 2.2% of them are in the status of career foreclosure, 8.6% of
them are ambiguous. 2) The ANOVA analysis and further LSD-test of four dimensions of the three
categories of nursing students found that only the difference in the career
achievement dimension is statistically significant (P 0.05), the
second batch of admitted nursing students from senior middle school had the
highest score, followed by the nursing students admitted from junior college
graduates, and the first batch of admitted nursing students from senior middle
school has the lowest score, the remaining differences are not statistically
significant (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Nearly half of the undergraduate nursing students have not reached the career
achievement. The second batch of admitted nursing students has the highest
professional achievement, and the first batch has the lowest. Nursing educators
should take targeted measures to guide the nursing students to the state of career
achievement and improve the professional identity level.